[✔️] Jan 21, 2024 Global Warming News | Salt battery, 7 bits of positivism, Vis data, Pauli CHefurka, 2009 Peter Sinclair

Sun Jan 21 14:47:04 EST 2024

/*January*//*21, 2024*/

/[ Battery science - video ]/
*Will your next battery be based on salt?*
Just Have a Think
Jan 21, 2024
Sodium-Ion battery technology promised a lot when it first hit our 
headlines more than two years ago. But has it delivered? Well, let's 
find out...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43g2RLLWxCw

/[ 7 bits of positivism - author interview ]/
*Not the End of the World, *
Jan 19, 2024  #amanpourpbs
According to a new study in the journal Nature, the ice in Greenland is 
melting 20% faster than was previously believed. Data scientist Hannah 
Ritchie says while headlines like these are urgent and alarming, we need 
to shift our focus towards solutions. This point of view is laid out in 
Ritchie's new book "Not the End of the World," which she joins the show 
to discuss.
Originally aired on January 19, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QMDFIj5g9U

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/[ visualizing the worlds major problems ]/
*Our World in Data*//
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Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and 
inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is 
these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on.

Thanks to the work of thousands of researchers around the world who 
dedicate their lives to it, we often have a good understanding of how it 
is possible to make progress against the large problems we are facing. 
The world has the resources to do much better and reduce the suffering 
in the world.

We believe that a key reason why we fail to achieve the progress we are 
capable of is that we do not make enough use of this existing research 
and data: the important knowledge is often stored in inaccessible 
databases, locked away behind paywalls and buried under jargon in 
academic papers.

The goal of our work is to make the knowledge on the big problems 
accessible and understandable. As we say on our homepage, Our World in 
Data’s mission is to publish the “research and data to make progress 
against the world’s largest problems”.

Why have we made this our mission?

This is the question our founder Max Roser answers in this text:
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Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and 
inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is 
these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on.

Thanks to the work of thousands of researchers around the world who 
dedicate their lives to it, we often have a good understanding of how it 
is possible to make progress against the large problems we are facing. 
The world has the resources to do much better and reduce the suffering 
in the world.

We believe that a key reason why we fail to achieve the progress we are 
capable of is that we do not make enough use of this existing research 
and data: the important knowledge is often stored in inaccessible 
databases, locked away behind paywalls and buried under jargon in 
academic papers.

The goal of our work is to make the knowledge on the big problems 
accessible and understandable. As we say on our homepage, Our World in 
Data’s mission is to publish the “research and data to make progress 
against the world’s largest problems”.

Why have we made this our mission?

This is the question our founder Max Roser answers in this text:

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Why do we need to know about progress if we are concerned about the 
world’s largest problems?
https://ourworldindata.org/

/[  Clips from Paul Chefurka's 2012 posting of Climbing the Ladder of 
Awareness  ]/

*Climbing The Ladder of Awareness  by Bodhi Paul Chefurka*
October 19, 2012

When it comes to our understanding of the unfolding global crisis, each 
of us seems to fit somewhere along a continuum of awareness that can be 
roughly divided into five stages:

*1. Dead asleep.* At this stage there seem to be no fundamental 
problems, just some shortcomings in human organization, behaviour and 
morality that can be fixed with the proper attention to rule-making. 
People at this stage tend to live their lives happily, with occasional 
outbursts of annoyance around election times or the quarterly corporate 
earnings seasons.

*2. Awareness of one fundamental problem. *Whether it's Climate Change, 
overpopulation, Peak Oil, chemical pollution, oceanic over-fishing, 
biodiversity loss, corporatism, economic instability or sociopolitical 
injustice, one problem seems to engage the attention completely. People 
at this stage tend to become ardent activists for their chosen cause. 
They tend to be very vocal about their personal issue, and blind to any 
others.
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3. Awareness of many problems.* As people let in more evidence from 
different domains, the awareness of complexity begins to grow.  At this 
point a person worries about the prioritization of problems in terms of 
their immediacy and degree of impact. People at this stage may become 
reluctant to acknowledge new problems - for example, someone who is 
committed to fighting for social justice and against climate change may 
not recognize the problem of resource depletion.  They may feel that the 
problem space is already complex enough, and the addition of any new 
concerns will only dilute the effort that needs to be focused on solving 
the "highest priority" problem.

*4. Awareness of the interconnections between the many problems. *The 
realization that a solution in one domain may worsen a problem in 
another marks the beginning of large-scale system-level thinking. It 
also marks the transition from thinking of the situation in terms of a 
set of problems to thinking of it in terms of a predicament. At this 
point the possibility that there may not be a solution begins to raise 
its head.

People who arrive at this stage tend to withdraw into tight circles of 
like-minded individuals in order to trade insights and deepen their 
understanding of what's going on. These circles are necessarily small, 
both because personal dialogue is essential for this depth of 
exploration, and because there just aren't very many people who have 
arrived at this level of understanding.

*5. Awareness that the predicament encompasses all aspects of life.*  
This includes everything we do, how we do it, our relationships with 
each other, as well as our treatment of the rest of the biosphere and 
the physical planet. With this realization, the floodgates open, and no 
problem is exempt from consideration or acceptance. The very concept of 
a "Solution" is seen through, and cast aside as a waste of effort.

http://www.paulchefurka.ca/LadderOfAwareness.html

/[The news archive - 2009 birth of an excellent YouTube channel for 
learning global warming science and politics  - the channel is 
https://www.youtube.com/@greenman3610/videos and it is still good. ]/
/*January 21, 2009 */

January 21, 2009: Peter Sinclair's "Climate Denial Crock of the Week" 
video series debuts.

http://youtu.be/l0JsdSDa_bM   [ first video of his channel ]

https://www.youtube.com/@greenman3610/videos  [channel ]

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